Thing works great, retails for $70 but I'll take $100 OBO. Email me
privately.
Or does it retail for $100 and you'll take $70 OBO? :P
Whoops. Retails for about $170 :)
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Brian
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Neil Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thing works great, retails for $70 but I'll take $100 OBO. Email me
privately.
Or does it retail for $100 and you'll take $70 OBO? :P
Had I just not recently bought an AppleTV I'd be all over this.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Whoops. Retails for about $170 :)
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Brian
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Neil Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thing works great, retails for $70 but I'll take $100 OBO. Email me
privately.
Or does
That's a tough choice - Apple TV or the Popcorn Hour. For me I went with
the Popcorn Hour because 99.9% of my media was non-DRM stuff ripped from CDs
and DVDs or recorded TV shows. While I used iTunes mainly for its podcast
subscriptions, I try and avoid purchasing content as much as possible.
Most of my media is non-iTunes, and I've had to hack it to play various
other media. Truth be told, I'm not very happy with it. A lot of media
in my collection just won't play on it, due to the way it's encoded.
Brian Weeden wrote:
That's a tough choice - Apple TV or the Popcorn Hour. For me
Yep - that's the other downside. The Apple TV only really plays stuff
encoded with Apple's codecs. If you've got WMV or XVID stuff then you will
have issues unless you hack it.
Many people don't realize that Apple does just as much monopoly lock-in as
Microsoft, it's just that they usually have
Actually, my problems are with H.264 encoded media, which is an Apple
standard!
The AppleTV just does not like high bitrate/VBR files.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Yep - that's the other downside. The Apple TV only really plays stuff
encoded with Apple's codecs. If you've got WMV or XVID stuff then
Unless he can regulate that DC to the exact voltage (18.5-19.5) required
by the laptop, it would be safer to get an inverter and use that to feed
the AC adapter that came with the laptop.
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP
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From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL
But that's a DC to AC to DC conversion and going to lose a lot in the
conversions. Generate quite a bit of heat too.
Best thing would be to find a PSU that can feed off 12V DC. I did that way
back in 1998 when I put a computer in my car to play MP3s. Wasn't all that
expensive, just a bit hard
Not all laptops run at 19v
My old HP (3 years old I think), runs at 12v. My current Asus does run at
19v though.
If the laptop does require more than 12v, have a look in auto electrical
places, or just electronics stores that do some auto electrical stuff.
Maplin (http://www.maplin.co.uk) over
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:54 -0300
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a person who is off-grid and wants to run his laptop off the
DC power he produces. Is there a device that will let him bypass the
power adapter that comes with the laptop to do this and is it recommended?
Ah yeah car adapter - that would be the best.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:54 -0300
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a person who is off-grid and wants to run his laptop off the
DC power he produces. Is there a
does it take a hdd too? or is that an external usb hdd?
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's pretty much brand new only used it for a couple weeks before deciding
to dump the money into my HTPC instead. Main difference there was being
able to use a
Both. It has 2 USB ports on the front and opens up where you can stick a HD
inside. Only IDE connector though.
Pretty easy to do:
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2008/07/07/how-to-video-install-a-hard-drive-into-popcorn-hour/
Brian
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL
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